dried-up
Example Sentences
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Running a big food company these days is like fishing in a dried-up pond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
When the team analysed the dried-up powder, they found it contained hematite, "giving the paste a deep red colour".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024
Ingenuity remains in contact with its companion, the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up riverbed for signs of extinct Martian life.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024
Now he walks across the dried-up lake bed.
From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2023
He points out the sun-bleached wooden moon bridge, slats missing, that arches across the dried-up pool.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
